Seventies Quotes - Page 7

• My producers and I worked with these consultants and came up with seventy [stories] which we think are exemplary of the larger arc of African-American history between 1513 and 2013. We covered half a millennium, and it's amazing.

  Henry Louis Gates

  Thinking, African American, Stories

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• The Church in the United States turned a corner about three decades ago, and the idea that we're going back to the incoherence of the late Sixties and Seventies is, frankly, silly. Let's have a little faith in what the Holy Spirit has done among us these past 35 years.

  George Weigel

  Silly, Past, Years

  Source: eppc.org

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• The problem is huge. We've just added seventy-five million people to the already large proportion of people in the world who are malnourished all the time, whose bodies are being starved.

  Margaret Atwood

  People, World, Body

  Source: progressive.org

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• I hope I'm beginning a new cycle of energy and creativity. If so, it'll really be my third career. The first was as a straight comic in the Sixties. The second was as a counterculture performer in the Seventies. The third will be...well, that's for others to judge.

  George Carlin

  Creativity, Careers, Judging

  Source: reprints.longform.org

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• Anyway, yes, telephones but not mobile phones, fish and chips still wrapped in actual newspaper and still with some kind of flavour, people visiting each other without having to consult their appointment diaries, not being able to record anything from the television; if you missed it you missed it - these were all the kinds of thing that made up the normality of the seventies.

  Quentin S. Crisp

  Phones, People, Diaries

  Source: www.teemingbrain.com

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• I think the seventies caught the last red rays of the dying sun of this innocence, but were already a little cold and drab.

  Quentin S. Crisp

  Thinking, Dying, Rays

  Source: www.teemingbrain.com

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• I'm not sure if there is a cultural loss of innocence specifically associated with the seventies. The oil crisis? The Watergate scandal? I really don't know. There's nothing there on the scale of Hiroshima.

  Quentin S. Crisp

  Loss, Oil, Scandal

  Source: www.teemingbrain.com

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• I feel like the seventies was a decade where things ran out, and where other things set in. There was just a lurking graininess and seediness about the decade, a slight grogginess of the hangover from the sixties.

  Quentin S. Crisp

  Hangover, Feels, Ran

  Source: www.teemingbrain.com

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• People didn't talk about paedophiles in the seventies, I don't think.

  Quentin S. Crisp

  Thinking, People

  Source: www.teemingbrain.com

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• As children in the seventies we were told about nebulous 'strangers'. By definition, we didn't know who these strangers were, and we didn't know what they wanted to do, but only that they were sinister. I think that was the stage the seventies were at.

  Quentin S. Crisp

  Children, Thinking, Definitions

  Source: www.teemingbrain.com

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• Lots of things were there [in the seventies], in the social experience, but not quite named, lurking like a stranger on the edge of the playground.

  Quentin S. Crisp

  Stranger, Social, Playgrounds

  Source: www.teemingbrain.com

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• At my age I'm exactly the kind of person who has lived through one of the most quickly changing periods known to history. Surely there could never be in seventy years so much change.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Years, Age, Kind

  Source: www.tolkienlibrary.com

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• My son's full real name is Duncan Zowie Haywood. As a toddler he was called by his second name Zowie. But it was such an identifiable name during the Seventies that if I called him loudly in public places, everyone would turn to stare, so I started calling him Joey to take the pressure off. It has the same sound and number of syllables as Zowie. And Joe stuck for most of his childhood. Now he has reverted to his real name, Duncan. Haywood was my father's name.

  David Bowie

  Father, Real, Son

  Source: us.hellomagazine.com

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• In doing the research, I found myself consumed by a single, overwhelming question, as relevant today as it was seventy years ago: When would I, as a wife and mother, risk my life - and more importantly, my child's life - to save a stranger? That question is at the very heart of The Nightingale. I hope that everyone who reads the novel will ask themselves the question.

  Megan Chance

  Mother, Children, Heart

  Source: www.omnivoracious.com

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• The Supreme Court of the United States of America will never under any circumstances allow anyone to be stripped of their citizenship because they burned the American flag. And if you don't believe that, you haven't been reading constitutional law for the past seventy years.

  Joe Scarborough

  Reading, Believe, Past

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• We are living in a Millennial culture that is attacking "patriarchy." The culture in America as zeroed in, and it's been going on and it's been building since the modern era of the feminazis began, since the late sixties and early seventies.

  Rush Limbaugh

  America, Eras, Culture

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Jose DeLeon
  on his career has seventy-three wins and one-hundred and five RBIs.

  Ralph Kiner

  Winning, Careers, Three

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• My own interest in Yoga came from a vague understanding of Indian thought and Indian philosophy in the late sixties and early seventies and from looking at the idea of meditation and at what meditation was.

  Paul Harvey

  Philosophy, Yoga, Ideas

  Source: www.yogastudies.org

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• Dulwich College takes me back after seventy years: My Mum must have written one hell of a sick note!

  Bob Monkhouse

  Funny, Humor, College

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• I spent nearly two years in a small village - perhaps seventy families. I've never worked harder or learned so much so fast in my life; as an anthropologist you are at work from when you open your eyes in the morning to when you close them at night.

  James C. Scott

  Morning, Eye, Night

  "An Interview with James C. Scott | Harry G. West and Celia Plender". Gastronomica Interview, gastronomica.org. March 14, 2017.

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• Will not God, who has commanded men to act thus, do as much himself and even more? For God commanded Peter to forgive till seventy times seven.

  Poemen

  Forgiveness, Men, Forgiving

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• You will never see'Altman's Great Film of the Seventies: The Director's Cut' because you have never seen a film of mine that wasn't the director's cut. I have never permitted it.

  Robert Altman

  Cutting, Directors, Film

  2004 In The Independent,14 May.

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• The brightest minds in our field have been trying to find a definition of science fiction for these past seventy years. The short answer is, science fiction stories are given as possible, not necessarily here and now, but somewhere, sometime.

  Larry Niven

  Past, Years, Fiction Stories

  Larry Niven (2003). “Scatterbrain”, p.311, Macmillan

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• No one is calling any of these designers racist. The act itself is racist. There were more black models working in the Seventies than there are in 2013. This a time when silence is not acceptable at all. If the conversation cannot be had publicly in our industry, then there is something inherently wrong.

  Iman Abdulmajid

  Silence, Black, Racist

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• In the early Seventies, I had shoulder-length hair, bell-bottom pants, love beads and shirts that laced up at the front. But then I smartened up.

  Tom Ford

  Love Is, Hair, Pants

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